Re: The Great Debate topic.

#111
so a fruit can be a vege but vege is not always a fruit...

Fruit vs. vegetables

An Euler diagram shows the overlap in the terminology of "vegetables" in a culinary sense and "fruits" in the botanical sense.
There are at least four definitions relating to fruits and vegetables:
Fruit (scientific): the ovary of a seed-bearing plant,
Fruit (culinary): any edible part of a plant with a sweet flavor,
Vegetable: any edible part of a plant with a savory flavor.
Vegetable (legal): commodities that are taxed as vegetables in a particular jurisdiction
Source: Wiki::Vegetable:Fruit vs. vegetables
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Re: The Great Debate topic.

#113
Lord help us all if science ever starts accepting definitions from chefs or lawyers. Or in other words people that actually know what they are talking about (not chefs or lawyers) know that being a fruit or a vegetable is a mutually exclusive event.
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Re: The Great Debate topic.

#114
You must accept, however, that a majority of people are NOT scientists. The widespread acceptance of the term "fruit" refers to the culinary rather than botanical definition. Basically, this is because not everyone gives a rat's patoot whether what they're eating is the enlarged ovary of a flower or not. So, botanically speaking, fruits and vegetables are indeed mutually exclusive, but to the general public, they are not.

EDIT: I must also state that it's silly to have lawyers and the such determine these things. It's got to be botanical or culinary, because these are the people who actually know what they're talking about.
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